How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.
One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.